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Jack & Dil, Review: Love my dog? Shadow my wife!
Set in picturesque Goa, the film seems to an advert for Goa tourism, a certain brand of tea and a particular brand of kettle. A bunch of actors were most likely contracted for a period and taken to the Western Indian beach paradise state, where a cat and mouse game was played out under the garb of making a movie. Reasonably talented actors appear novices as the plot, of a suspicious husband hiring a novice to spy on his wife, unravels at a ...
Ekkees Taarekh Shubh Muhurat, Review: Marry-go-round
Set in the Hindu holy town of Mathura, with only old faithful Sanjay Mishra in the non-star cast, Ekkees Taarekh Shubh Muhurat (21st, an auspicious date) is the sleeper that wakes you up, the mouse that roared. Slice-of-life characters, with only the occasional over the top comedy, keep the film anchored to the ground and the audience entrenched their cushioned seats.
Girdhari Lal Sharma (Sanjay Mishra) is a priest-turned-mythology-storyte...
Lupt, Review: Vengeance, the soul purpose
A wafer thin story-line might have made it easier for the makers to deliver a supernatural ‘horror’ film, but there is little to take home from Lupt, except some good performances, led by an unlikely Javed Jaaferi, who, against the trend, has been cast as a ruthless business tycoon. The film is a revenge tale, like 99% of all horror films, but chooses to delve into the realm of souls rather than ghosts. But aren’t most ghosts disgrun...
Happy Halloween!
Our first annual NYC 2 Paris Film Festival featured some perfect shorts to celebrate the spooky season!
For pure horror and witchcraft: Just After Midnight by Jean-Raymond Garcia and Anne-Marie Puga. The story of a young blind school teacher who uses witchcraft and Satan's erotology to gain back her sight.
For a cool costume idea: Cruello: J'adore J'adore by Maxime Ginolin. The story of MagicJack, an alien shape-shifter coming to earth to save humanity from ...
Badhaai Ho, Review: No age to have a baby
What if you discover that your mother is pregnant when you are 25 and in a steady relationship? Should you be happy? Sad? Feel outraged? Would you become the butt of jokes day in and day out? How would you deal with the development? Such is the off-beat premise of Badhaai Ho (Congratulations). [This review has been delayed for so many days due to serious issues with my computer, but the film, which was seen 10 days ago, deserves to be reviewed, and we...
Kashi—In Search of Ganga, Review: Searchomania and Schizophrenia
Suspense thriller it could be. It is not. Search for a sibling it could be. It is not. A film that takes the audience for a royal ride, it is. A classic case of the script and the direction tying up the story in knots, and then, not knowing how to unravel the Gordian knotty, only getting naughty and clever by half.
Lucknow-based journalist Devina meets Kaashi in Kaashi (another name for Varanasi or Banaras) and takes an ...
Gaon--The Village No More, Review: Here yesterday, Gaon today
Imagine a village cut-off from the country and the world. Totally, completely, fully, comprehensively cut off. Imagine community farming, imagine a community kitchen. Also imagine guru-shishya parampara (teacher-disciple oral tradition) education, without any tools. And imagine herbal medicine as the only method of disease treatment. Can you imagine this scenario in 2017? No, you can’t. Writer-director Gautam Singh Sigdar can...
Baazaar, Review: Insighter trading
Allahabad (now renamed Prayagraj) boy Rizwan Ahmed idolises stock market wolf Shakun Kothari and aims to become a billionaire tycoon like his hero. Baazaar then moves on to detail how unscrupulous and manipulative, even corrupt, Kothari is, and how all this impacts the small-town boy who has a sister to marry, and to live up to the expectations of an honest father who has just retired. Get ready for an insight into the world of stocks and shares, insider tra...
Submit to the second annual NYC 2 Paris International Film Festival by January 31, 2019 to meet our Earlybird Deadline!
For more info visit: https://filmfreeway.com/NewYork2ParisInternationalFilmFestival
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NEW YORK (October 23, 2018) – Rupert Friend will star in Separation, directed by William Brent Bell and written by Nick Amadeus and Joshua Braun. The film is produced by Bell together with Yale Productions’ Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, Russ Posternak and Jesse Korman, and RainMaker’s Clay Pecorin and Russell Geyser. Executive producers are Seth Posternak and Dennis Rice. Yale Productions’ Jon Keeyes serves as a Co-...
James W. Hawk is excited and proud to announce that he has just become a colleague of the United States Veterans’ Artists Alliance (USVAA) in the categories of film, photography and literature. USVAA is located in Los Angeles at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro. USVAA is an award-winning, multi-disciplinary non-profit arts organization, founded in 2004 by military veterans and artists. USVAA provides opportunities for veterans in the arts.
Here is the link to my colleague page: http...
By Maria Esteves – October 18, 2018
The 56th New York Film Festival Closing Night North American Premiere of AT ETERNITY’S GATE, by Academy Award nominated director Julian Schnabel commenced Friday, October 12, 2018 at Alice Tully Hall, New York. Red carpet arrivals included director Schnabel, actors Willem Dafoe, Oscar Isaac, Rupert Friend, screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, producer Jon Klik, writer Louise Kugelberg and actress Stella Schnabel.
AT ETERNITY’S GATE in sele...
Over 35 of oriental-based and occidental-oriented films by Anna Polibina-Polansky are now completely ready and wait for their viewers. Films last each from 10 up to 30 minutes, their scripts are poetic and feturing. The theme (subject, genre) greatly vary, from the Middle East to Japan, from Mediterrenean Europe up to the Far East. The Middle East countries have been visited by the author. The Far East culture is quite familiar for the dynasty of the author. This series of the lyric films is bas...
The Great Indian Dysfunctional Family, Web series by ALT Balaji
After an accident during border duty, in which he suffers a foot injury, General Vikramjeet Ranaut settles down for a quiet and happy life with his wife Geeta, mother Premlata and mute son Mridul in his ancestral home in Coonoor. In his spare time, he trains some military cadets.
When his estranged brother Samar and sister-in-law Sonali return after 8 years, things spiral out of control. Samar had fled both the home and the army...
Fryday, Review: Thank Devil, It’s Friday
A water-purifier salesman has until Friday to make his first sale, or else face the sack. A ham actor has only the Friday to make his extra-marital catch, since his wife is away for just about a day. The twain meet at the actor’s home, where the married fan of the hero is about to give in to his seductive moves, and then all hell breaks loose.
Umpteen Gujarati and English plays in Mumbai have tried and tested the formula, usually with succ...
Helicopter Eela, Review: No copter, too much of Eela
An intriguing title, the film has nothing to do with helicopters. It is the story of a domineering and stubborn mother who has a fixation about her only son’s welfare and whereabouts. Trouble is he is twentyish and the last thing he needs or likes is being mothered all the time. Designed to showcase the talent of actress Kajol, and co-produced by hubby, actor Ajay Devgn, Helicopter Eela begins on a bright note and then peters down to ...
Tumbbad, Review: Hastaar the Horrible and the Dough Dolls
Tumbbad, named after the location where most of the action takes place, is a historical fantasy horror film, directed by debutant Rahi Anil Barve. Anand Gandhi, the director of Ship of Theseus, served as the creative director, co-writer and executive producer, with Adesh Prasad as co-director and co-writer. Tumbbad is jointly produced by lead actor Sohum Shah and Aanand L. Rai, among others. The film took six years to make and is path ...
By Maria Esteves – October 10, 2018
RESTORING TOMORROW is an awe-inspiring documentary that captures the history and the restoration of the WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE, the first Jewish temple in Los Angeles, CA, founded in 1860s. Known for celebrities who frequented attended temple from Warner Bros. Jack, Henry, and Albert to Ricardo Montalbán to Diana Ross, it’s breathtaking 100 feet high dome ceiling with Hebrew inscription leads me to imagine what will the reconstruction...
Didn't make it to the Paris portion of our festival? Curious what went down?
Check out our gorgeous photos taken by photographer India Lange!
You can view them on our Facebook or website. There's so many awesome shots of our brilliant filmmakers as well as our audience members having a great time!
To submit to the second annual festival visit: FilmFreeway
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by Tom Llewellin
A woman who has just murdered her husband walks into a parking garage, where she gives a strange man a couple of cigarettes. Now she’s on the ferry to a secluded Southeast Asian island, bundles of cash strapped to her body. The man straps the bills off, and they cast uneasy glances at each other. They sit on a white beach as waves lap the secluded shoreline, trying to to negotiate and renegotiate some level of intimacy. But it’s plain to see they are shaken by ...
Meryam Joobeur is a young Montreal-based filmmaker who has worked with Sasha Lane of American Honey fame, among others. Her new short film Brotherhood explores issues of cultural dislocation, family tension and sacrifice. It won the award for best Canadian short film at TIFF in September.
In Brotherhood, a family’s eldest son returns home from Syria to his Tunisian shepherd family, accompanied by his new wife - a young woman wearing a niqab, a garment in which only the eyes are vi...
We are now accepting submissions for the 2nd Annual NYC 2 Paris International Film Festival!
Join us in this new exciting tradition! All happening October 11 - 20, 2019!
What could be better than fall in NYC and Paris, watching your film along with other new and exciting films while meeting fans and filmmakers from around the world!
CERTIFICATES FOR THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES, THE CERTIFICATES WILL BE GIVEN OUT AT THE AWARDS CEREMONY IN PARIS THIS YEAR.
Best Narrative Feature...
We had 23 INCREDIBLE films from 8 different countries!
Thank you to all the filmmakers who took part and the fans that attended! Without your support, none of this would be possible!
We are pleased to officially announce the 2018 winners!
(Note- the list of winners is also on our website)
BEST SHORT FILM
Alone
by Antoine Laurens
BEST DIRECTOR
Jeremie Seguin (Sweetheart, Mon Poussin)
BEST ACTOR IN A SHORT FILM
Nicolas Fabian (Alone)
BEST ACTRESS IN A SHORT FILM
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(Still from "Don't Tell Me You Can't Sing". Courtesy of Filmfest Oldenburg)
By LINDSAY R. BELLINGER
Sabine Timoteo is a well-known actress in her native Switzerland. She also co-wrote the Philip Gröning film "Mein Bruder heißt Robert und ist ein Idiot" (My Brother's Name is Robert and He is an Idiot), which premiered in competition at Berlinale this year. This time she wears the director's hat for an avant-garde film that starts ou...
(Still from "Don't Tell Me You Can't Sing". Courtesy of Filmfest Oldenburg)
By LINDSAY R. BELLINGER
Sabine Timoteo is a well-known actress in her native Switzerland. She also co-wrote the Philip Gröning film "Mein Bruder heißt Robert und ist ein Idiot" (My Brother's Name is Robert and He is an Idiot), which premiered in competition at Berlinale this year. This time she wears the director's hat for an avant-garde film that starts ou...
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